Holy crap you cranked this one out fast! But not a trace of rushed appearance whatsoever. Are you on “Corona-cation”? Thank goodness we have mounds of plastic to keep ourselves occupied.
You’ve got some great advice from more talented builders than me, so I’ll save my weathering “tips” as I’m still trying to figure it out myself. I would like to ask you a question for you regarding Mission Models primer. How do you clean up afterwards? I used it once, and it stuck in my airbrush like glue! What’s your secret?
I enjoy the paints, and have stocked up on quite a bit. But cleanup is nowhere near as easy as they want you to believe.
Cleaning mission models primer out of the airbrush takes much more work than any other type of paint in my limited experience. I have an Iwata HP-C.
For the regular Mission Models paint, after dumping the excess, I usually use water to rinse, wipe out the cup and shoot a bit through the airbrush. Then I just shoot a bit of mission models thinner and I’m done.
For the primer, water is useless so I don’t bother with it. After shooting or dumping out the excess primer, I use a healthy amount of mission models thinner and scrub the cup with a brush or q-tip and dump out the residue (I’m careful not to shoot the garbage through the nozzle). I scrub and dump a few times until there are no floating chunks. Then I’ll shoot the thinner until it’s clear. I’ll then usually remove the needle and clean it and the needle cavity near the cup with thinner.
I’ve found this usually works OK and drives me to plan out my priming sessions to minimize cleanup events.